The majority of school districts in California do not meet minimum annual facility expenditure benchmarks, even—in many cases—with state funding.

Between 2008 and 2012, at least 57% of districts did not meet industry benchmarks for spending on capital renewals and more than 60% failed to meet the benchmark for basic maintenance and operations.

In many cases, the same school districts are falling behind on both measures.

• This project required lots of data cleaning and merging. I used Stata for some of the data cleaning before merging datasets in R.
• Choroplethr provided the basis for understanding where and how much spending is going towards public school facilities.
• Leaflet enabled me to include pop-ups for interactive maps that show specifics about each California county.

• There are still some flaws in the code (ie. on the Assessed Value leaflet map, I have no idea where those values are coming from; and similarly for the Benchmark Spending)
• I want to add more layers to the leaflet maps including which counties passed bond measures in 2016 for school infrastructure.
• I couldn't get the Choropleth maps to knit into this HTML, so I decided to remove them. However, I think they can be rather helpful (even though I prefer the Leaflet maps)